National Boxing gold-winners to make staff for World Championships; Head Guards introduced again

Boxers will compete in head guards through the males’s National Championship scheduled to start out on September 15 and the gold-medallists from the occasion will qualify for the World Championships to be held subsequent month in Belgrade, Serbia.
The Nationals, which couldn’t be held final yr due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will likely be staged on the Inspire Institute of Sports in Bellary, Karnataka and the highest two in every class will make automated lower for the nationwide camp.
“The gold-medallists will qualify for the World Championships. The Nationals will be followed by an Open Championship and the top two from there will also be added to the camp,” Boxing Federation of India Secretary General Hemanta Kalita informed PTI after an govt committee assembly of the BFI.
“Head guards will be back as was proposed because we don’t want to risk major cuts given the very little time in hand for the world championships,” he added.
The world occasion will likely be held from October 26 and it will be the primary main worldwide aggressive outing for the boxers after the Tokyo Olympics.
Men’s newbie boxing did away with head guards in 2013 when the AIBA medical fee, after a analysis research, concluded that eradicating the gear “may reduce the already small risk of acute brain injury in amateur boxing.”
The nation’s Olympic-returned boxers will even must compete and declare gold on the Nationals to be eligible for the worldwide showpiece.
Amit Panghal (52kg), Manish kaushik (63kg), Vikas Krishan (69kg), Ashish Chaudhary (75kg) and Satish Kumar (+91kg) had competed on the Tokyo Games.
Of these, Vikas is presently out of motion, nursing a shoulder damage that wanted to be operated on.
“The Olympians have to compete and win gold at Nationals to be eligible for the world championship. There is no exemption. The dates and venue for the Open championship will be announced later,” he added.
“Immediately after the Nationals, we will have trial bouts on September 22 and 23 between this year’s bronze winners and last edition’s top three to decide additional boxers for the national camp,” Kalita stated.
The National Championship will likely be competed within the new weight classes launched by the International Boxing Association in July.
The world occasion will likely be held from October 26 and it will be the primary main worldwide aggressive outing for the boxers after the Tokyo Olympics. (Representative picture)
The revised weight divisions for males, after being elevated from 10 to 13, are 48kg, 51kg, 54kg, 57kg, 60kg, 63.5kg, 67kg, 71kg, 75kg, 80kg, 86kg, 92kg, and +92kg.

The AIBA occasions and Olympic competitions don’t characteristic head guards however nationwide associations are free to conduct their tournaments with or with out the protecting gear.
The AIBA analysis had concluded that head guards can enhance the danger of blows to the pinnacle as a result of the padding across the eyes limits the boxer’s imaginative and prescient. On the flip-side, the absence of head guards has contributed to an elevated price of cuts.
To this, the AIBA research had said that “as boxers become more experienced and acclimated” to boxing with out head guards and coaches change their type in view of the brand new rule, the speed of cuts will likely be diminished to earlier historic ranges.
The head guards had been made obligatory in 1984 by AIBA earlier than being dumped in 2013.
The event in Bellary would require boxers, collaborating officers and assist employees to current a detrimental RT-PCR take a look at report obtained 72 hours earlier than touchdown on the competitors. The boxers’ temperatures will even be checked on arrival.